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The history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri's book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.

Hārūn al-Rashīd, --- Haroun al-Rachid, --- Hārūn ar-Rashīd, --- هارون الرشيد --- هارون الرشيد، --- Islamic Empire --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- History --- Historiography. --- Abbassides (dynastie) --- Hārūn al-Rachīd, --- Historiographie --- Empire islamique --- Historiographie. --- Abbassides --- Arts and Humanities --- Harun al-Rashid,

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The 'inquisition' (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era. Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and problems in early Islamic history. In this incisive study, John Nawas subjects the various proposed explanations of these events to a sober and searching analysis and, in the process, presents a new interpretation of al-Ma'mun's political and religious policies, contextualized against the background of early Abbasid intellectual and social history. Appended to the volume is a reprint edition of Walter M. Patton's Ahmed ibn Hanbal and the Mihna (Leiden 1897), which still has much that is useful for modern scholarship, including one enormous additional benefit; it contains most of the relevant passages in Arabic from the primary sources

Miḥnah. --- Islam --- Islamic civilization. --- Doctrines --- History. --- Doctrines. --- Maʼmūn, --- Qurʼan --- Qurʼan. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Civilization, Islamic --- Muslim civilization --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- Inquisition, Islamic --- Inquisition, Motazilite --- Miḥna --- Motazilite Inquisition --- Motazilites --- History --- Maʾmūn, --- Qurʾan --- Abd Allah Almamun, --- ʻAbdallah Maʼmūn, --- Abdullah-al-Mamun, --- Abuʹl-ʻAbbās ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Maʼmūn, --- Almamun, Abd Allah, --- El-Mamoun, --- Mamoun, --- Maʼmūn, --- Maʼmūn, ʻAbdallah, --- Maʼmūn, Abuʹl-ʻAbbās ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn, --- المأمون --- مأمون --- مأمون، --- مأمون، خليفه --- مامون، --- Al-Coran --- Al-Qur'an --- Alcorà --- Alcoran --- Alcorano --- Alcoranus --- Alcorão --- Alkoran --- Coran --- Curān --- Gulan jing --- Karan --- Koran --- Koranen --- Korani --- Koranio --- Korano --- Ku-lan ching --- Ḳurʼān --- Kurāna --- Kurani --- Kuru'an --- Qorān --- Quräan --- Qurʼān al-karīm --- Qurʺon --- Xuraan --- Κοράνιο --- Каран --- Коран --- קוראן --- قرآن --- Miḥnah --- Islamic civilization --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Doctrines&delete& --- Miḥnah --- Qur'an --- Abū al-ʻAbbās ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd, --- Ma'mun Ar-Rashid, --- أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد --- ‏مامون،‏ --- Islam - Doctrines - History --- Maʼmūn, - Caliph, - 786-833